Lesson Plan: American Heroes

Curricula for K-12 Civics Education

Context of the unit:

Lesson Plan: American Heroes

This third grade lesson is part of a Government and Citizenship unit. This unit is designed for students to understand that communities and nations need laws and leaders to help protect citizens and keep order, and that our government relies on participation from its citizens. The students will focus on why citizens need laws and leaders, what laws and leaders do, and how citizens help governments.

Context of the lesson within the unit:

"American Heroes" follows a lesson on the qualities of good citizens. Students have learned that citizens in our country have rights and responsibilities. Students have described the qualities of a good citizen, and identified people in their community who have shown good citizenship. This project will incorporate Standards 3.4.2 and 3.4.6 to demonstrate that good citizenship requires active participation in our government.

Standards Addressed: Social Studies

3.4 Students understand the role of rules and laws in our daily lives and the basic structure of the U. S. government.

3.4.1 Determine the reasons for rules, laws, and the U.S. Constitution; the role of citizenship in the promotion of rules and laws; and the consequences for people who violate rules and laws.

3.4.2 Discuss the importance of public virtue and the role of citizens, including how to participate in a classroom, in the community, and in civic life.

3.4.4 Understand the three branches of government, with an emphasis on local government.

3.4.6 Describe the lives of American heroes who took risks to secure our freedoms (e.g., Anne Hutchinson, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Fredrick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Martin Luther King, Jr.)

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Standards Addressed: Reading

2.2 Ask questions and support answers by connecting prior knowledge with literal information found in, and inferred from, the text.

2.6 Extract appropriate and significant information from the text, including problems and solutions.

3.3 Determine what characters are like by what they say or do and by how the author or illustrator portrays them.

Standards Addressed: Writing

1.3 Understand the structure and organization of various reference materials (e.g., dictionary, thesaurus, atlas, encyclopedia).

2.0 Students write compositions that describe and explain familiar objects, events, and experiences. Student writing demonstrates a command of standard American English and the drafting, research, and organizational strategies outlined in Writing Standard 1.0.

Standards Addressed: Listening and Speaking

1.0 Students listen critically and respond appropriately to oral communication. They speak in a manner that guides the listener to understand important ideas by using proper phrasing, pitch, and modulation.

1.3 Respond to questions with appropriate elaboration.

1.8 Clarify and enhance oral presentations through the use of appropriate props.

2.1 Make brief narrative presentations

2.2 Plan and present dramatic interpretations of experiences, stories, poems, or plays with clear diction, pitch, tempo, and tone.

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Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects K-5

College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Reading K-5

Key Ideas and Details 1. Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.

College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Writing K-5

Text Types and Purposes Research to Build and Present Knowledge

7. Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects based on focused questions, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.

College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Speaking and Listening K-5

Comprehension and Collaboration 1. Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively. 2. Integrate and evaluate information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally. 3. Evaluate a speaker's point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric.

Presentation and Knowledge of Ideas 4. Present information, findings, and supporting evidence such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning and the organization, development, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.

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Objective(s): ? Students will choose a biography to read about one American hero. ? Students will have a deeper understanding about this hero's life and of the risks they took to secure

our freedoms as evidenced by their performance and research paper

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Lesson Plan: American Heroes

Big Idea(s): ? The strength of a democracy is equal to the strength of its citizens. (We must

understand, participate in, and further develop our system of government to ensure democracy.) ? E Pluribus Unum: Out of many, one. (From a variety of sources, experiences, and people, we have developed a successful government and legal system.)

Essential Questions/Issues: 1. Is Citizenship a right or a responsibility?

2. Does social capital (involvement) strengthen a republic?

3. How do citizens help our government?

Higher Order Thinking Questions: 1. What kind of person is an American hero? (analysis)

2. Compare and contrast two different heroes. What similar qualities do they have? How are they different? (analysis)

3. What would have happened if these heroes didn't do what they did? (evaluation)

4. Which American Hero would you most like to meet? Why? (evaluation)

5. What qualities of these heroes are similar to you? (evaluation)

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This curriculum does not necessarily reflect the views of the Judicial Council, the AOC, or the Court Programs and Services Division/CPAS. Furthermore, the authors, the Judicial Council, the AOC, and the Court Programs and Services Division/CPAS do not provide any warranties regarding the currency or accuracy of the information in these works. Users are reminded to check the subsequent history of any case and changes to statutes and Rules of Court cited in the works before relying on them. These works are provided for the personal noncommercial use of teachers and may not be used for any other purpose without the written permission of the authors.

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